GEOSTAT 1B Final Management Report – February 2014
GEOSTAT 1B
FINAL MANAGEMENT REPORT
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FRONT PAGE
GEOSTAT 1B FINAL REPORT
Grant Agreement number: 50502.2009.004-2011.536
Project acronym:
Project title: GEOSTAT 1B – Representing census data in European population grid
Periodic report: Final
Period covered: from: 01/01-2012 to: 31/12-2013
Name, title and organisation of the scientific representative of the project's coordinator:
Ola Nordbeck, Adviser, Statistics Norway
Tel: 0047 21 09 48 78
E-mail: [email protected]
Project website address: www.efgs.info
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Contents
1. Introduction/summary............................................................................................................ 4
Important results and outcomes from the GEOSTAT 1B project ................................................ 5 2. Work Completion .................................................................................................................... 6
WP-1A Testing and quality assessment ....................................................................................... 7 WP-1B Geostatistics by disaggregation or mixed methods ......................................................... 8 WP-1C Geostatistics by aggregation ......................................................................................... 11
WP-1D Integration of population grid data ............................................................................... 13 WP-2 Data sharing and data policy............................................................................................ 15 2.1: Negotiations regarding the integration of additional variables. .......................................... 15 2.2: Outline for a shared business model ................................................................................... 16 2.3: Outline for a distributed system of services ........................................................................ 17
WP-3 Project website ................................................................................................................. 18 3.1: Continuous maintenance and improvement of the EFGS website. ..................................... 18
WP-4 Exploitation, distribution and dissemination ................................................................... 19
4.1: Closer relationship between the GEOSTAT project and the international Geostatistics
community. ................................................................................................................................ 19 4.2 Conferences and Workshops ................................................................................................ 19 Sub task 4.3: Promotion material ............................................................................................... 22
4.4: Presentations, posters and papers at conferences to reach potential users of the EU
GEOSTAT dataset. .................................................................................................................... 22
4.5: Monitoring the INSPIRE process and especially issues related to the GEOSTAT 1B
project......................................................................................................................................... 23 4.6: Road map for the continuation of EFGS and the work towards European population grids.
.................................................................................................................................................... 23 3. Final Deliverables and Milestones tables ............................................................................ 25
4. Project management ............................................................................................................. 27
5. Dissemination action towards the ESS ................................................................................ 29
6. Final use of resources ............................................................................................................ 33
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1. Introduction/summary
This report is a result of the efforts in the GEOSTAT 1B project. This project is following the
initial GEOSTAT 1A project with the aim of developing guidelines for datasets and methods
in order to link population statistics from the Census 2010/2011 to a common harmonised
grid.
The project consortium was based on partners in the European Forum for Geostatistics
(EFGS) as beneficiaries and as voluntary contributors. Many of these were also involved in
the GEOSTAT 1A project and are important for the sustainability of the GEOSTAT action.
The main objective of the GEOSTAT 1B project was to make guidelines for others, primary
national statistical institutes (NSIs), to follow for making gridded population statistics in a
harmonised way. The guidelines will be produced for NSIs categorised as a representatives of
the:
- “Aggregation approach” (also called bottom-up approach). Referring to countries who
have georeferenced population registers or georeferenced population census data and
who need to sum population data to an aggregated level. In this case 1 km2 grids.
- “Hybrid approach” (also called mixed methods). Referring to countries who have a
blend of population data from georeferenced register data to calculated population
estimates using satellite imagery.
The guidelines were tested in the project and population grid datasets were generated
including variables as the total population as well as population divided by age groups and sex
for certain countries depending on national dissemination practices and confidentiality rules..
In order to highlight the potential of grid statistics the project developed a series of case
studies where the population gridded statistics were combined with spatial data. The most
important case study was here the “access to emergency hospitals study” where the population
data was combined with georeferenced emergency hospitals and road networks.
The project handled also licensing issues for disseminating grid statistics easily without
restrictions and this work resulted in an “Open license template” to be used by NSIs
producing grid statistics. Another important topic in the project has been to study the
consequences of different confidentiality policies in between the NSIs and to come with
recommendations.
Dissemination of the procedures and the progress in the GEOSTAT 1B has also been a
priority in the project, reaching out via the upgraded project website (EFGS.info) and in
workshops and conferences. Organising the EFGS Conferences in Prague and Sofia has also
allowed the geostatistics community in the more eastern regions of Europe to have an easier
access to the progress made within the GEOSTAT projects.
The project partners in the GEOSTAT 1B were the NSIs of Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Finland, Portugal and Norway. The project was also assisted by a subcontractor
called MD Mapping. For contact details see http://www.efgs.info/about.
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For more information and contact details see; EFGS website http://www.efgs.info/geostat/1B
and the CROS portal of the project: http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/geostat-1b .
Important results and outcomes from the GEOSTAT 1B project
Population data following guidelines
The guidelines have been used and followed and a list of 13 NSIs (the 6 project partners plus
7 voluntary contributors) have contributed with population data following the data
descriptions (14th of February 2014). 10 of these NSIs have also completed quality
assessment reports and attached to the population data.
Series of case studies
The project consortium has carried out a series of case studies in order to persuade more
NSI’s to produce population statistics on 1 km2 grids.
An expanding network of geostatisticians
As mentioned in the introduction the GEOSTAT 1B project has resulted in an outreach a
broader geostatistics community in form of immediate neighbouring countries to the EU27+
and academia and NSIs in countries on other continents.
Future commitments
Within the project consortium all partners have expressed their interest in producing a
GEOSTAT 2016 dataset with the same quality as the GEOSTAT 2011.
Integration of geography and statistics
The project consortium has tried to integrate the production of grid statistics into Generic
Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM) throughout the project. These efforts resulted in
the final technical report following the statistical production chain.
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2. Work Completion
Work package 1 Geostatistics was originally divided into four work packages. The first work
package WP-1A was supposed to focus on “hands-on” work to be carried out by all project
partners in order to verify the quality of existing Pan-European population grids (mainly the
population grid of the Austrian Institute of Technology produced for Eurostat). Case studies
and a methodology for improving the existing population grids were planned to be produced
as well as prototype datasets with population data from the different partners.
WP-1B and WP-1C were supposed to assist the WP 1 partners in generating population grids
based on aggregation, disaggregation or mixed methods. The two work packages were also
supposed to create case studies in order to assess existing and new population grids.
WP-1D was meant to unify and harmonise population datasets from the various project
partners and voluntary contributors. Case studies were here planned to be used in order to
verify the quality of the new Pan-European datasets.
In the kick-off meeting it was agreed between the project group and Eurostat that regarding
WP-1A the main contribution of the project should focus on providing assistance to and/or
test data of European disaggregation projects for quality evaluation purposes. The provision
of test data and assistance have been within the limits set by data confidentiality and business
interests of the participating NSIs. Advise on how to possibly improve disaggregation
techniques based on national expertise has been welcomed, but the project group was not
expected to actually develop European disaggregation datasets. Rather, disaggregation work
by the consortium has focused on disaggregation in a national context where applicable, and
by using national data.
This have had some impacts on the project and especially on WP-1A and WP-1B where the
focus has been now more on the aggregation and hybrid approach than on the top down
approach.
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WP-1A Testing and quality assessment
A summary of progress towards objectives and details;
In accordance with the application, this project work package was about verifying the quality
of existing Pan-European population grids (mainly the population grid developed by the
Austrian Institute of Technology for Eurostat). If possible the partners were also welcome to
give advice on how to possibly improve disaggregation techniques based on national data and
expertise.
This work package was broadened to include quality assessment of all population grids
regardless production method. That will say a quality assessment adapted to the aggregation,
disaggregation and hybrid methods.
Highlight clearly significant results:
In the kick-off meeting it was decided to continue the work with the quality assessment
parameters that were developed in the GEOSTAT 1A project. This decision resulted in a
version 2.0 of the quality assessment template in 2012 that was shared with all EU27+
countries in 2013. The NSIs of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland,
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Slovenia filled in the template in 2013 (find reference to
reported Quality Assessment templates below) and provided many ideas for improving the
template to a Version 2.1. This later version is to be found on the website of EFGS.info under
following link: http://www.efgs.info/GEOSTAT/1B/guidelines/efgs-modified-quality-
assessment-parameters
Regarding the verification of the quality of existing Pan-European population grids, the work
package leader carried out an initial test and quality assessment of the disaggregated data of
the Austrian Institute of Technology in 2012. The results of these assessments can be found in
the document called “Testing and quality assessment of pan-European population grids -
based on the Norwegian experience”. http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix3-testing-
and-quality-assessment-pan-european-grids
In the GEOSTAT project disaggregation techniques are important for covering the whole of
Europe with population gridded data. In 2013 a new version of a Pan-European dataset
produced by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) was released by Eurostat.
AIT has used population data from the Population and Housing Census in administrative units
(LAU2), and spatial information on soil sealing, derived from remote sensing. In terms of
spatial disaggregation, the global parameter is the total population of the region, while the
local parameter is the assumed housing density derived from Earth Observation. Applying
housing density as a proxy for population density allows estimating the local population
distribution.
The dataset from AIT is not the only dataset that is based on this technique, and more are to
come. In the GEOSTAT 1B project some of the participants have contributed with their
knowledge and data in cooperation with data producers in order to assess the quality and also
to have some feedback on how the data can be improved. One example of such a contribution
is Statistics Finland’s support to the “Urban Atlas” work carried out as a part of the local
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component of the GMES/Copernicus land monitoring services1. This work is briefly reported
by Statistics Finland in the paper: “Testing and quality assessment of pan-European
population”.
Project deliverables to support this issue:
GEOSTAT1B Consortium 2013 EFGS modified Quality Assessment parameters V 2.1
Nordbeck, Ola Erik 2012 Testing and quality assessment of pan-European population grids
Tammilehto-Luode, Marja and Tammisto, Rina
2013 Fine-tuning a disaggregation model for Urban Atlas
GEOSTAT1B Consortium 2013 Appendix 17 EFGS MODIFIED QUALITY ASSESSMENT PARAMETERS, FILLED IN BY GEOSTAT1B CONTRIBUTORS
Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B
project:
Backer, Lars H. 2013 A "Big Picture" description of production process(es) for statistics
Backer, Lars H. 2013 Systems of geostatistics and processes required to produce them
Backer, Lars H. 2013 EFGS QA A benchmarking approach
Other documents to support this issue produced in collaboration with the GEOSTAT1B
project:
Kuzma, Igor 2012 Statistical confidentiality in small area statistics dissemination
Leeuwen, Niek van 2012 Applying disclosure control on average values when publishing by different small areas
Maack, Udo. PhD 2013 Comparing the GEOSTAT population grid 2006 with municipal data in Germany
Martin, David . Prof. 2013 Sensitivity analysis of disclosure control measures
WP-1B Geostatistics by disaggregation or mixed methods
A summary of progress towards objectives, details and significant results;
The efforts in 2012 were mainly focusing on the aggregation approach. However, the
Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (BNSI) can be categorised as a representative of a
«hybrid» country in the project consortium and have until now gathered data that can be used
for aggregation. BNSI has also has also assessed how to complement existing micro data with
a top-down approach. As mentioned under WP-1A, a similar assessment was carried out by
Statistics Norway in 2012, and these efforts were joined with the efforts of BNSI in 2013.
(http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix9-methodology-hybrid-approach-statistics-
bulgaria).
There is also a tradition within the GEOSTAT consortium for assisting disaggregation works
with knowledge and data. As mentioned above, Statistics Finland was in 2012 approached in
order to assist in work with the Urban Atlas. Other requests for assistance from the
GEOSTAT 1B partners came from the NSIs in Turkey, Croatia and Spain.
The Czech Statistical Office has also studied the possibilities for using disaggregation
methods in their work with producing population grids for previous years to 2011. Also when
processing the Population and Housing Census 2011, an overwhelming majority of the
population data was georeferenced into building points. This enabled the application of an
1 http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/urban-atlas
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aggregation method for producing a population grid. However, there are about 93 000 people
(i.e. about 0.9 % of the total census population), who could be linked only to the level of
statistical districts, but not to the exact place of usual residence (e.g. homeless people, people
living in buildings without final approval or in emergency buildings or shelters). The
distribution of these persons into the exact place (with x,y coordinates) or alternatively into
grids, must be conducted through some disaggregation method.
This case study shows different methods on how to disperse disperse people not assigned to
an exact place of residence ither into fictive places of usual residence, or into grids. The
methods are applied via ArcGIS software on spatial example of a small town (Abertamy) in
the northern part of the Czech Republic very close to Germany. The paper discusses these
methods and indicates their advantages and disadvantages. The final solution for the Czech
Republic will be adopted before publishing Population and Housing census results in grid
format. This is further described in the case study report of the Statistical Office of Czech
Republic: (http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix-16-disaggregation-methods-
georeferencing-inhabitants-unknown-place-residence-case)
Another case study, carried out by Statistics Norway, assessed the possibility for using a
hybrid methodology in order to follow how the green spaces in and around urban
environments have been affected by the extensive urban development in European cities. The
objective of this case study was to combine building register data, land use data and satellite
imagery in order to follow changes in vegetation caused by construction activities and land
use change. The results from this study were promising and even with low resolution satellite
imagery it was possible to follow changes in vegetation in various land use categories. Large
scale construction works were also possible to detect and, with better imagery and higher
resolution, in the future this approach can become even more relevant.
The reason why this is of such an interest now, is that from 2015 it will be possible to
supplement information from map databases and registers with satellite data from the
European satellite Sentinel-2. In order to be prepared for data from the Sentinel-2 satellite,
this study tested how this approach can function using Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer ( MODIS ). MODIS geographical resolution is of 250 meters, but the
temporal resolution (the frequency of observations of the same object) is similar to Sentinel-2
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Improved building and population registers, land use data and satellite imagery can result in a
better understanding of the changes in the urban environment and where they occur in relation
to the population distribution.
Most of the partners in the GEOSTAT 1B project are privileged to have georeferenced
registers and have therefore little need to disaggregate data for generating population on 1km2
grids. However, the hybrid methodology can also be used when exploring the vegetation
changes in and around urban areas. The case study resulted in a stepwise methodology that is
applicable and promising for the years to come: (http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix-
14-vegatation-change-detection-statistical-institutes-case-study-combining-building)
Project deliverables to support this issue:
Ahmedov, Arslan and Dudova, Irena
2013 Methodology for generating Bulgarian population grid 2011
Kraus, Jaroslav 2012 Comparison of bottom-up and top-down methods used to create grid data from the Population and Housing Census 2011, report
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Nordbeck, Ola Erik 2013 Vegetation change detection methodology for statistical institutes - A case study for combining building register data with satellite imagery
Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT 1B
project:
Backer, Lars H. 2013 On the top-down process
Ahmedov, Arslan and Dudova, Irena
2013 Prototype of Bulgarian Population Grid 2011 (Hybrid solution in producing grid statistics)
Kraus, Jaroslav 2012 Comparison of bottom-up and top-down methods used to create grid data from the Population and Housing Census 2011, presentation
Kraus, Jaroslav and Moravec, Stepan
2013 Disaggregation Methods for Georeferencing Inhabitans with Unknown Place of Residence: the Case Study of Population Census 2011 in the Czech Republic
Moravec, Stepan 2013 QA Czech republic
Nordbeck, Ola Erik and Ahmedov, Arslan
2012 An ideal way of integrating the spatial dimension into the statistical production chain - Does it exist?
Santos , Ana 2013 Using the European Grid ETRS89/ LAEA_PT_1K as the foundation for the new Portuguese Sampling Infrastructure
Other documents to support this issue produced in collaboration with the GEOSTAT 1B
project:
Bueno, Maria do Carmo 2013 Brazilian Statistical Grid – a hybrid approach
Casares, Serafín Ojeda 2013 A population grid for Andalusia (Spain)
Crkvenčić, Branko 2012 GIS in Croatian Bureau of Statistics
Duque, Ignacio 2012 Small statistical units in Spain: Enumeration Districts, Nomenclátor and Grid
Duque, Ignacio 2013 Using Census 2011 geodata of Spain
Halkia, Matina 2013 Buildings Foot Prints
Krüger, Tobias 2012 High Resolution Land Use Information by combined Analysis of Digital Landscape Models and Statistical Data Sets
Loonis, Vincent 2013 Building area sampling with tax files
MacManus, Kytt 2012 Methods of Reconciling Geographic Boundaries in Integrated Research
Poelman, Hugo 2013 Measuring access to public transport in cities and regions
Rosina, Konstantin and Hurbánek, Pavol
2012 Top-down population density grid based on European land monitoring services
Rosina, Konstantin. PhD student 2013 An improved method for population disaggregation based on European land monitoring services
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WP-1C Geostatistics by aggregation
A summary and significant results of progress towards objectives and details;
The main effort in 2012 was on establishing a methodology for generating population grids
based on the aggregation approach and collected input from various project partners. The
work is finished, and the results were placed on EFGS website as training material early in
2013. (http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix1-production-procedures-aggregation-
method).
The methodology report for the aggregation approach was based on the experiences of the
various partners. These so-called “Production case studies” are included in an appendix to the
methodology report. As a part of the production process, each partner assessed the quality of
the existing Pan-European grid net country clip. (http://www.cros-
portal.eu/content/appendix1-production-procedures-aggregation-method).
The “Production case studies” are one type of case studies in the project. The other type of
case studies are so-called “Operational case studies”. “Operational case studies” are,
according to the project definition, case studies that demonstrate useful applications of
population grid data and in that way potentially increase the interest for grid statistics.
In the kick-off meeting, the following topics were suggested: ageing society, employment,
research and development, climate change, energy, education, poverty and social exclusion.
In the GEOSTAT 1B project the project partners agreed on working together on a case study
calculating the population within 30 minutes from emergency hospitals. (http://www.cros-
portal.eu/content/appendix-11-access-emergency-hospitals)
The aim of this case study was to show the possibilities as well as the advantages of using
population data in GRID format. Another part of this case study has been to study the
consequences of data confidentiality policies applied by various NSIs.
This case study is making use of the 1km² GEOSTAT 2011 population grid in combination
with georeferenced road networks and emergency hospitals in order to determine the
population’s travel time to emergency hospitals. The population within 30 minutes driving
distance is divided into various groups of age and sex.The idea was here to generate statistics
by age groups and as addressed in the kick-off meeting to focus on the age group above 65.
In the European context this study has similarities to The European Core Health Indicators
(ECHI). ECHI is a list of 88 health indicators . One of these is indicator 80: Equity of access
to health care services, which is based on survey results and include a question about travel
distance to medical care2.
Using GIS (Geographical Information Systems) for studying travel time to emergency
hospitals can complement the surveys of Eurostat and be an input into ECHI’s indicator 80.
This examples therefore also illustrates how the use of GIS and geospatial information can
support the statistical production process and improve quality and efficiency of data
collections (spatial analysis instead of usually expensive sampling).
2 http://www.echim.org/docs/Final_Report_II_2012.pdf
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Project deliverables to support this issue:
The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Production procedures bottom up
The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Access to emergency hospitals
Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B
project:
Ahmedov, Arslan and Dudova, Irena
2013 Production case studies for generating a harmonised European population grid
Backer, Lars H. 2012 The table or database method
Tammilehto-Luode, Marja 2012 Workflow to create grid data
Other documents to support this issue produced in collaboration with the GEOSTAT1B
project:
Corcoran, Dermot 2012 Exploiting the potential for Geostatistics in the Republic of Ireland
Kuzma, Igor 2013 Mobile statistics in Slovenia - First contact
Moravec, Stepan 2013 Training material Czech republic
Moravec, Stepan 2013 Case studies Czech republic
Piela, Pasi 2013 Enabling a national road and street database in population statistics: Commuting distances for all employed persons and other accessibility statistics
Shala, Idriz 2012 A Population grid for the Republic of Kosovo
Shala, Idriz 2013 Statistical Data Dissemination by Census Atlas
Udržalová, Zdeňka 2012 Statistics, Geodata and Our Way to Geoinformation
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WP-1D Integration of population grid data
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
The main effort in 2012 was on establishing a methodological framework to ensure that data
delivery from the various population data contributors were easy to integrate into a Pan-
European grid. This methodological framework was used by the various project partners
carrying out their work with building, collecting and processing their population data. This
work resulted in short production case studies per project partner and in the iterative process
of the action these production case studies were used for adjusting the methodological
framework. (http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix1-production-procedures-
aggregation-method).
Based on these amendments and the updates of the training material, an invitation letter was
sent out in March 2013 asking all European NSIs (EU27 +) to use the material and to
contribute to the GEOSTAT population grid (http://www.efgs.info/geostat/1B/invitation).
Based on this request as of 1.1.2014, the following countries contributed to the GEOSTAT
2011 grid:
Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland.
Some NSIs are about to finalise their Population and Housing census data for 2011 and have
expressed interest in sharing data with Eurostat in 2014/2015.
The data contributions have all followed the structure of the GEOSTAT 1B guidelines. This
has made the integration and harmonisation work of individual contributions easier than it
was in the GEOSTAT 1A project.
Highlight clearly significant results:
Guidelines for producing population grid data per country according to the aggregation
method have beendeveloped as mentioned under work package 1A to 1C. A letter requesting
data delivery from all NSIs was sent out in 2013. Population data following the guidelines
developed were received from 12 countries.
A draft poster of the GEOSTAT 2011 data Version 0.1 (October 2013) was produced by
Eurostat to the EFGS Conference in Sofia 2013. A version 1.0 is expected to be produced
based on the contributions by January 2014.
Project deliverables to support this issue:
The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Production procedures bottom up
The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Invitation letter
Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B
project:
Petri, Ekkehard 2013 The integration of statistics and geospatial information in Europe – can the EFGS make the loose ends meet?
Petri, Ekkehard 2013 GEOSTAT 2011 – A population grid for Europe representing the Census 2011
Other documents to support this issue produced in collaboration with the GEOSTAT1B
project:
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Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst 2012 Population Census and European Neonatal Health Statistics
Goerlich, Francisco. PhD 2012 Urban Morphological Zones for Spain: Urban indicators from an Object Oriented Land Cover data base and a population grid
Goerlich, Francisco. PhD 2013 Urban/Rural Areas: Population density (from a 1 km2 grid), land cover and remoteness as basic elements for an urban/rural typology at LAU2 level.
Haldorson, Marie 2013 Key note - Inspired by new possibilities
Horák, Jiří 2012 Gridded register-based data for detail spatio-temporal monitoring and modelling. Vision of data harmonisation and integration
Kugler, Tracy 2012 Terra Populus: Integrated Data on Population and Environment
Milego, Roger 2012 Harmonised population time-series (1990-2010) for Europe by means of the OLAP technology
Moström, Jerker 2012 What's going on out there? - Gridded data for detection of pressure on land use
Moström, Jerker 2013 Improved statistics on urban green space
Poelman, Hugo 2012 Towards indicators of proximity to services in Europe's major cities
Resano, Elsa 2012 National Dwelling Inventory
Sedláček, Miloš 2012 LUCAS (Land Use / Cover Area Frame Statistical Survey)
Silva, Filipe Batista e 2012 Detailed population distribution maps for Europe´s cities
Strand, Geir-Harald . PhD 2013 Grids for pan-European land monitoring
Turnalieva, Lilyana 2013 Geoinformation & INSPIRE in Bulgaria
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WP-2 Data sharing and data policy
2.1: Negotiations regarding the integration of additional variables.
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
In line with the recommendations of GEOSTAT 1A the project partners in GEOSTAT 1B
agreed that the total population should be considered as official statistics; free of charge and
without disclosure to be reported on 1 km2 grid cells.
In order to obtain more population variables/breakdowns the project asked for more
population variables in the invitation letter sent in 2013
(http://www.efgs.info/geostat/1B/invitation).
Based on the project partners’ population data the project conducted a so-called “operational
case study”, referred to under “WP-1C Geostatistics by aggregation” above. In this case
study, issues regarding confidentiality policies and population breakdowns were assessed.
This assessment provided an overview of the consequences of applying various
confidentiality thresholds on population data (including breakdowns): (http://www.cros-
portal.eu/content/appendix-11-access-emergency-hospitals).
A web survey was conducted in 2012, showing that most members of EFGS will publish their
Population and Housing censuses before mid-2013. The project defined a serie of
recommended variables for reporting from the NSIs.
Highlight clearly significant results:
As a result of the EFGS 2012 web survey (http://www.cros-
portal.eu/sites/default/files//Appendix12_WP2_EFGS2012_websurvey.pdf), the project
produced a list of variables and statistical units to be recommended as standard and official
grid statistics. Throughout the project these variables were modified by the project partners
and this resulted in a new list of variables, focusing on population variables:
(http://www.efgs.info/geostat/1B/guidelines/efgs-standard-for-official-statistics-population-
variables)
This list of “open core data set” variables is based upon a selection of recommendations from
UN on thematic maps for Population and Housing census atlases3.
Based on the data request from the project, the following NSIs contributed with some or all
the population breakdowns to the GEOSTAT 2011 grid:
Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and
Slovenia. However, it become clear that for the 2011 census providing all the breakdowns is
difficult for many countries, mainly due to unsovled confidentiality and data license issues.
3 pp. 155, United Nations (2008). Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Revision 2. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Statistics Division. New York, 2008.
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/67/Rev.2 Statistical papers Series M No. 67/Rev.2
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The “operational case study” resulted in an overview of potential consequences of applying
various confidentiality thresholds on population data (including breakdowns):
(http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix-11-access-emergency-hospitals)
In short, these thresholds may result in that the advantages of grid statistics are lost due to
suppression of grid cells with number of people below a certain threshold.
Statistics Finland dealt with this issue by protecting all population breakdowns where the total
population is below 10 persons per grid cell. Nevertheless, the total population was still
provided for values below 10 persons per grid cell.
Project deliverables to support this issue:
The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Access to emergency hospitals
The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 GEOSTAT2011 grid Invitation letter to contribution The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 EFGS Standard for official statistics population variables
Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B
project:
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 EFGS Standard for official statistics
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2012 EFGS Standard for official statistics all variables
2.2: Outline for a shared business model
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
This task is concerned with the development of a proposal for a shared business modell. It has
been assumed that all NSIs will provide their part of a dataset providing the spatial
distribution of their total population on km grids with no obligations attached.
The introduction of further variables require a shared business model. This is based on
previous discussions in connection with INSPIRE and the GEOSTAT ESSnet 1A project. The
task force has discussed and proposed a common open licence model for European grid data
sets. As a result of the EFGS 2012 web survey, core datasets for grid statistics have been
recommended as standard for official grid statistics, see section 2.1. above. For these core
data sets for grid statistics, a common open data licence has been elaborated.
Highlight clearly significant results:
A first version of a business model has been developed, see annex for EFGS template for
open data licence. This is intended as a first version for official grid statistics, and is based
upon the open data licence made by the National Land Survey of Finland.
Project deliverables to support this issue:
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 EFGS open data license template
Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B
project:
Sommer, Erik. EFGS Consultant 2012 Market watch/Business report - Grid statistics
Sommer, Erik. EFGS Consultant 2012 EFGS 2012 Market Report
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2.3: Outline for a distributed system of services
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
This sub task was about making an outline for a distributed system of services to view, buy
and download national bi- and multilateral datasets. This issue started as part of the
GEOSTAT 1A project and was resumed as a part of the tasks to be executed during the
GEOSTAT 1B project.
In order to carry out this task, the work package leader drafted a distribution system for the
production of bi- and multilateral datasets. This system was supposed to build on the results
of the GEOSTAT 1A WP3 (infrastructure) and to be further developed in cooperation with
the responsible for the GEOSTAT ESSnet 1B WP4.4 (the person responsible for contacts
with the INSPIRE project). We have previously discussed the need for a distributed solution
that can guarantee a harmonised dataset in cross border situations (to serve as a foundation
for bi- and multilateral projects). (ref to WP 4 for maintenance of grid dataset after 2013).
Highlight clearly significant results:
The project has revealed that more work needs to be done in order to have a streamlined
system for distribution of services to view, buy and download datasets from different NSIs.
Although some preliminary standards have been set for datasets and metadata, policies with
respect to dissemination of data still vary considerably. Although most NSIs have a sort of
open data policy, conditions for use and fees should be investigated more.
Documents to support this issue:
Schmitz, Carole 2012 Describing Mexican Population: GIS in Census - Data Dissemination and Making Decisions
Voženílek, Vít 2012 Geovisualisation of Statistical Data within Spatial Data Infrastructure
Wardzińska-Sharif, Amelia 2012 Geostatistics Portal in Poland
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WP-3 Project website
3.1: Continuous maintenance and improvement of the EFGS website.
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
Continuous maintenance and improvement of the EFGS website. The website is the reference
point for the promotion of European geocoded statistics and help make the project results
visible on the web. It is regularly updated with information from the project and from the
scientific community, together with case studies on Geostatistics from EFGS members and
beyond.
Highlight clearly significant results:
A new design for the website has been developed. The Eurostat logo has been included on
front page. All material from EFGS 2012 and 2013 conferences in Prague and Sofia has been
uploaded. News about Map of the Month has been published on a volontary basis. The
GEOSTAT 1B project has been more visible on front page with an own prominent entrance.
The number of visitors to the website has grown steadily. Most visitors come from European
countries, national statistical institutes and research institutions. However, with more focus on
global issues, more and more visitors come from countries outside Europe. During 2013-2014
more than 16 000 individuals have visited the website, making more than 70 000 page views.
Documents to support this issue:
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2012 EFGS 2012 Prague conference
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2012 ESTP 2012 course in Geostatistics
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 EFGS 2013 Sofia conference
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 ESTP 2013 course in Geostatistics
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 Google Analytics reports (Not available yet) The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2012 EFGS 2012 Prague conference
The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 EFGS 2013 Sofia conference
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WP-4 Exploitation, distribution and dissemination
4.1: Closer relationship between the GEOSTAT project and the international Geostatistics community.
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
During 2012 and 2013 the GEOSTAT partners have deepened the relationship between the
GEOSTAT project and the international geostatistics community. The international
geostatistics community includes academia and NSIs inside and outside the EU 27+ area. The
collection of national states may be divided into two rough groups;
-The first group consists of immediate neighbouring countries to the EU27+ that are
interested in a harmonisation of their datasets with those of the GEOSTAT project.
- The second group relates to countries on other continents.
Highlight clearly significant results:
Interest from EU and immediate neighbours surrounding the EU territory
Already before the project started several NSIs agreed on being voluntary contributors to the
GEOSTAT project. Being a voluntary contributor is about being willing to share knowledge
and data with the project. In the last years’ EFGS conferences it has been noticed a higher
presence of Eastern European countries. This is a positive development that was strengthened
as a result of having the EFGS 2013 conference in Sofia. The National Statistical Institute of
Bulgaria’s engagement in the GEOSTAT 1B project has resulted in an increased interest from
their neighbouring countries (the NSIs of Romania, Turkey and Greece) in establishing
population grids.
Interest from the Global geostatistics community
NSIs, academia and key user communities have further been invited to discuss the idea of a
more accurate global aggregation approach, based system of point statistics. A provisional
committee, consisting of representatives from the EFGS and the NSI Brazil will make the first
move towards a Global meeting in the second half of 2015. This task force had its kick-off
meeting in the end of November 2013, with participants from CIESIN, JRC, Eurostat, EFGS,
Brazil, Spain and Portugal.
4.2 Conferences and Workshops
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
4.2.1 GISCO workshops and EFGS conferences
GISCO workshop 2012
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The GEOSTAT project was very visible at the joint NSI and NMA GISCO workshop
organised in Luxembourg on the 8-9th of March 2012. A whole session (3) during the second
day was dedicated to the GEOSTAT project. The issue was elaborated through a series of
presentations. The meeting informed about the coming activities of the GEOSTAT 1B project
and gave an appeal to all NSIs to become voluntary data contributors to the GEOSTAT
project.
The EFGS conference 2012
The EFGS 2012 conference was held in Prague from the 24th
to the 26th
of October and was
hosted by the Czech Statistical Office. The conference program consisted of a Keynote
session, a set of Working sessions all focusing on production issues directly or indirectly
related to the GEOSTAT project, and a closing session with focus on the way forward. This
conference was organized and financed via the GEOSTAT 1B action. For more information,
see http://www.czso.cz/efgs/efgs2012.nsf/i/home
GISCO workshop 2013
The GEOSTAT project was very visible also at the joint NSI and NMA GISCO workshop
organised in Luxembourg on the 14th-15th of March 2013. The meeting informed about the
coming activities of the GEOSTAT 1B project and gave an appeal to all NSIs to become
voluntary data contributors to the GEOSTAT project. The meeting announced also the EFGS
conference in Sofia 2013.
The EFGS conference 2013
The EFGS 2012 conference was held in Sofia 23rd
-25th
of October and was hosted by the
National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria. The conference program consisted of a Keynote
session, a set of Working sessions all focusing on production issues directly or indirectly
related to the GEOSTAT project, and a closing session with a focus on the way forward. This
conference was organized and financed via the GEOSTAT 1B action. For more information
see http://www.nsi.bg/efgs2013/
4.2.2 GEOSTAT 1B project workshops
In the GEOSTAT 1B project five workshops have been organised. Minutes have been
prepared for all meetings and the presentations are stored and published on the webiste of
EFGS.info. The Eurostat contact person has attended all meetings.
1. Workshop 1 February 2012, Oslo
The purpose of this workshop was to make the participants aware of the Grant
Agreement, discuss expectations and organisation of the project, agree on amendments
(if needed) and to assess the quality and be aware of ways to improve existing
population grids
2. Workshop 13-15th
of June 2012, Oslo
The objective of this workshop was to finalise the set of quality variables, to prepare
training material that can be used by NSIs when generating population grids, to get
more familiar with the EFGS.info website, to find out more about which additional
statistical units and variables we can report on and to discuss a shared business model
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for data dissemination. The workshop also discussed the preparations in front of the
EFGS conference in Prague.
3. Project meeting in front of EFGS conference 24th October 2012, Prague, Czech
Republic. The purpose of this meetingwas to present a status report of the project and
to inform the project partners what was expected until the end of 2012. The aim until
the end of the year was finalise training material.
4. Workshop 29th
-31st of May 2013, Sofia
This workshop was originally planned to be held in Oslo, but due to the preparations
in front of the EFGS conference in Sofia in October 2013, the participants decided to
move the workshop to Sofia.
The objective of this workshop was to get more familiar with the work carried out by
the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria regarding population grid production
following the hybrid approach.
The workshop also discussed the two case studies following the aggregation and
hybrid approach. The different participants agreed on a way forward for the
aggregation case study: Access to emergency hospitals.
Based on the invitation letter sent out in front of the GISCO workshop in March 2013,
the project received test data from various NSIs including population data and forms
with quality assessment parameters. The partners agreed on that the population data
was completed as intended and saw no need for changes to the guidelines. Regarding
the quality assessment parameters, some needs for modification were identified and
the guidelines were updated accordingly.
The draft of the technical report was also presented and received comments from the
workshop participants.
5. Project meeting in front of EFGS conference 22nd October 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria.
The purpose of this meeting was to present a status report of the project and to identify
any needs for prioritising tasks until the end of the project.
Highlight clearly significant results:
The project specific workshops made it possible to keep close contact between the project
partners throughout the project. They allowed the partners to concentrate their efforts just in
front of, during and just after the workshops. The GISCO Workshop and the EFGS
conferences functioned as milestones throughout the project.
The organisation of the EFGS 2012 Prague and Sofia conferences functioned well with very
competent assistance by the hosting NSIs and the GEOSTAT1B Consortium. The conferences
were, in spite of the deepening economic crisis in Europe, attended by 70 geostatisticians
mainly from the EU27+ NSI’s.
The GISCO workshop and EFGS Conferences are two important annual meeting occasions
enabling close ties in the European geostatistics community. These ties result in that all
participating NSIs feel an ownership to the GEOSTAT projects and are willing to contribute
to their success.
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From EFGS point of view the EFGS conferences resulted in the the creation of a five year
framework for Geostatistical activities (see “The EFGS 2012 Prague Way Forward”), and the
EFGS Prague initiative for establishing a taskforce for the integration of geography and
statistics (See “The EFGS 2012 Prague Initiative”).
Sub task 4.3: Promotion material
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
The most important products are:
1. The EFGS.info website
The Website represents the largest single source of promotion material that has been
produced for the GEOSTAT 1B project. For more information see work package 3.
2. The GEOSTAT 1B flyer
We have produced and used the GEOSTAT 1B flyer on several occasions throughout
the project.
3. Posters
a. Production flowchart, based on the production case studies for generating
population grid: “Contribute to the GEOSTAT1B population grid”
b. A draft poster of the GEOSTAT 2011 data Version 0.1 (October 2013) was
produced by Eurostat to the EFGS Conference in Sofia 2013. A version 1.0 is
expected to be produced based on the contributions by January 2014.
Highlight clearly significant results:
The most significant result is an upgraded EFGS website and the draft poster of the
GEOSTAT 2011 data.
4.4: Presentations, posters and papers at conferences to reach potential users of the EU GEOSTAT dataset.
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
In addition to the EFGS website, the EFGS conference and the GISCO workshop the project
disseminated their products at:
ESTGIS conference Pärnu, Estonia, 30th of November until the 1
st of December 2012.
ESSnet workshop, Rome, Italy, 3rd
until the 4th of December 2012.
ESSnet workshop, European Modernisation Workshop, Valencia, Spain, 23rd until the 24th
January 2014
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4.5: Monitoring the INSPIRE process and especially issues related to the GEOSTAT 1B project
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
The project has tried to get a better understanding of how the finalisation of INSPIRE Annex
3 data specification will impact the production of population grids in the framework of
GEOSTAT 1B.
INSPIRE Annex 3 includes both Population distribution - demography package and the
Statistical Units package. The GEOSTAT1B is concerned by both packages since Population
distribution - demography package mainly handles the statistical values/indices and that these
are attached to spatial objects defined in the Statistical Units package (statistical grids).
Highlight clearly significant results:
The project did not manage to find out how the finalisation of INSPIRE Annex 3 will affect
the production of population grids and will therefore continue advocating for the use of the
INSPIRE adapted grid (see chapter 2.1 Output in the final technical report) and metadata
standard (see chapter 2.2 Goal for product quality in the final technical report) of EFGS.
Documents to support this issue:
Haldorson, Marie 2013 Key note - Inspired by new possibilities
4.6: Road map for the continuation of EFGS and the work towards European population grids.
A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;
As referred to under the other tasks under work package 4, various efforts have been made in
order to ensure the sustainability of GEOSTAT and the EFGS after the GEOSTAT projects.
The concern is that in many countries the 2011 Population and Housing census has not
established a permanent and sustainable infrastructure for the production of population grid
statistics and that many of the investments made could be wasted in the long term if not
prolonged. The project and the EFGS have drafted a road map towards a point based
foundation for the ESS.
Contacts have been made with several UN task forces working on the integration of statistics
and geospatial information (UN-GGIM task force) and on the upcoming round of censuses
(UNECE task force) to ensure that grid statistics aspects will be taken into consideration in
their recommendations.
Highlight clearly significant results:
A general draft has been developed towards a long term roadmap to describe the task of
designing, producing, implementing, using and testing the evolution of a point-based
foundation for the ESS over a series of two-year projects from and including the GEOSTAT
1B project to the implementation of Grid statistics in the EU 2020 round of national
Population and Housing censuses. This draft should be further developed and elaborated over
a series of iterations.
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Throughout the GEOSTAT 1B project, Statistics Portugal has accomplished significant
results in the development of a sampling approach in order to make future production of grid
data easier. Within the project consortium all partners have expressed their interest in
producing a GEOSTAT 2016 dataset with the same quality as the GEOSTAT 2011.
Documents to support this issue:
Backer, Lars H. 2012 In search of a Shared Vision
Backer, Lars H. 2012 In search of the Way Forward
Backer, Lars H. 2012 Proposal for the EFGS 2012 Prague Declaration
Backer, Lars H. 2013 GGIM and the GEOSTAT Projects
Backer, Lars H. 2013 In search of a way forward for the EFGS
Backer, Lars H. 2012 EFGS Project proposals
Backer, Lars H. 2013 Notes towards a Eurostat taskforce for the integration of geography and statistics
Backer, Lars H. 2012 The EFGS 2012 Prague initiative
Backer, Lars H. 2013 A way forward for the European Forum for Geostatistics (EFGS)
Backer, Lars H. 2013 The GEOSTAT taskforce for the integration of geography and statistics
Backer, Lars H. 2012 The EFGS 2012 Prague Declaration
Backer, Lars H. 2013 A roadmap towards the integration of grid statistics into the ESS
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst and Nordbeck, Ola Erik
2012 ESSnet GEOSTAT 1B presentation in Rome 2012
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst. 2012 The past and present of the EFGS project
Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst. 2013 President of EFGS about "EFGS project"
MacManus, Kytt 2013 The Influence of Statistical Inputs on Global Gridded Geospatial Datasets
Nordbeck, Ola Erik 2013 How To GEOSTAT Your Census Data
Nordbeck, Ola Erik 2013 Contribute to the GEOSTAT1B popgrid
Nordbeck, Ola Erik and Ahmedov, Arslan
2013 Spatial dimension into the statistical production chain
Nordbeck, Ola Erik (ed.) 2013 GEOSTAT 1B presented at GISCO 2013
Petri, Ekkehard 2012 Towards a better integration of statistics and geography - an ESS strategy
Petri, Ekkehard 2013 Eurostat about GGIM and the EGIM in Europe
Tammilehto-Luode, Marja 2013 The Finnish geoportal and statistical data
Tammisto, Rina 2012 Production processes for a harmonised European population grid in Finland
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3. Final Deliverables and Milestones tables
Table 1: Deliverables List
Del.
no. Deliverable name
WP
no.
Date
due
Actual
delivery
date
Comments
1
ESSnet FINAL REPORT GEOSTAT 1B 0 2013 2013
Proposed in order
to replace
individual WP
reports, revised
2014
2 ESSnet Final management report GEOSTAT 1B 0 2013 2014
3 ESSnet Intermediary management report GEOSTAT 1B 0 2012 2012 Revised 2013
4 Minutes of workshops and teleconference 0 2013 2013
Cont. Updated on
EFGS website
5 Action plan 0 2013 2013
Cont. Updated on
EFGS website
6 Testing and quality assessment of Pan-European
population grids 1A 2012 2012
7 EFGS modified Quality Assessment parameters V 2.1 1A 2012 2012
Proposed, revised
2013
8 Fine-tuning a disaggregation model for Urban Atlas 1A 2013 2013 Proposed
9 Filled in Quality Assessment templates of the
GEOSTAT_grid_POP_1K_ALL_2011_QA 1A 2013 2013 Proposed
10
Prototype datasets 1A 2013 2013
Cancelled,
duplication. see
WP1A and WP1B
11 Bulgarian population grid 2011, methodology + data 1B 2013 2014
12
Comparison of bottom-up and top-down methods used to
create grid data from the Population and Housing Census
2011, case study report 1B 2013 2013
13
Vegetation change detection methodology for statistical
institutes - A case study for combining building register
data with satellite imagery 1B 2013 2013
14 Production procedures aggregation method, report 1C 2013 2013
15 GEOSTAT 2011 datasets 1C 2013 2013 Version 1,0 2014
16 GEOSTAT 1B case study: Access to emergency hospitals 1C 2013 2013
17
Dataset and methodology 1D 2013 2013
Cancelled,
duplication. see
WP1A and WP1B
18 GEOSTAT2011 grid Invitation letter to contribution 1D 2013 2013
19 How to Contribute to the GEOSTAT1B population grid
poster A0 1D 2013 2013
20 EFGS Standard for official statistics population variables
V1.0 2A 2013 2013
21 EFGS open data license template 2A 2013 2013
22 Google Analytics reports 3 2013 2014
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Table 2: Milestones List
Milestone
no.
Milestone name Workpackage
no.
Date due Actual date Comments
1 EFGS Conference
2012
WP-1A, 1C
and 4
Aggregation
methodology and
guidelines vs 1
2 End of 2012 WP-0, 1A, 1C,
2 and 3
Intermediary
report,
aggregation
methodology and
guidelines vs 2,
website
3 GISCO 2013 WP-1A, 1C, 2
and 3
Aggregation
methodology and
guidelines vs 1
4 EFGS Conference
2013
WP-1A, 1B,
1C and 4
Hybrid
methodology and
case studies
5 End of 2013 All WPs
6 GISCO 2014 All WPs
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4. Project management
1. The GEOSTAT projects have been successful due to the existing inter-NSI networks
established as a result of the yearly GISCO workshops and the existence of the European
Forum for Geostatistics EFGS. The GISCO workshop and EFGS Conferences are two
important annual meeting occasions and allow close ties to be made between members of the
European geostatistics community. These ties result in that all NSIs participating in these
meeting occassions feel an ownership to the GEOSTAT projects and are willing to contribute
to their success, often on a voluntary basis.
The GEOSTAT 1B project used the GISCO workshops in 2012 and 2013 to present the
developments in the project. In order to increase the workshop audience’s interest in the project
they were also asked to contribute actively:
- In 2012 the project requested the audience to prioritise the project tasks and detected the urge
for developing a methodology paper for producing population grids following the aggregation
approach
- In 2013 the project invited the GISCO audience to follow the methodology and guidelines
developed in the first year of the project as requested in 2012. The project asked also the
audience to choose in between a selection of case studies and got very positive feedback that
helped the project to proceed with its work.
2. The existing networks have expanded even further to the international geostatistics
community throughout the GEOSTAT 1B project to include two new groups:
-The immediate neighbouring countries to the EU27+ that are interested in a harmonisation of
their datasets with those of the GEOSTAT project.
- Academia and NSIs in countries on other continents.
For more information about the closer relationship between the GEOSTAT project and the
international Geostatistics community see Work Package 4.
3. In order to ensure that the project planning was followed, it was agreed in the kick-off meeting
(first workshop) in Oslo to concentrate the efforts just in front of, during and after the various
project workshops. Under the sub task 4.2.2 description above, a list of project workshops are
listed. These workshops were initiated with an invitation and a list of items to be handled. The
project partners agreed at each occasion to do some preparatory work in front of the workshops
in order to make these meetings as productive as possible. After each workshop the results were
summed up and followed by a list of follow-up issues to be handled before next meeting
occasion. This approach work well and in combination with telephone conferences the milestone
list was followed.
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4. During the GEOSTAT project there has also been established an infrastructure for organising
the EFGS Conferences. The work has been coordinated by the consultant in the project who have
organised committees to plan and conduct the conferences. Already early in the project a
committee was established including the host of the 2012 EFGS Conference, but also including
the host of the 2011and 2013 EFGS Conferences. This ensured a sound exchange of experiences
in order to make the conferences as fruitful as possible. This was repeated in the preparatory
work for the 2013 EFGS Conference in Sofia.
5. The project website was developed during the first year of the project, having a new and more
professional design. The new design was built around the EFGS logo made by Statistics Portugal
in 2011. The website has been used for uploading presentations, papers, posters, flyers, training
material, news and events. All partners and numerous ESS countries have contributed. The
website was also used for the project including action plans and minutes from meetings.
An important contribution to the website has also been the work carried out by the EFGS web
editor, Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, who has kept the site updated.
6. Proposals to improve the project management;
It has become evident that a professional expert group like the EFGS is a key success factor
for involving more NSIs than just the project partners already during the project. This means
that the project manager should also be visible in EFGS activities and EFGS steering
committee members should be involved in the running of the GEOSTAT projects. The efforts
made in order to finance EFGS activities in parallel to the GEOSTAT projects are very
positive in this regards as well as the financing of the website of EFGS.info and the EFGS
Conferences.
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5. Dissemination action towards the ESS
The overview table show each major activity having taken place. Major events have been
described in detail under the work package 4 descriptions, about conferences, workshops and
courses.
Table 3: Overview Table
Dates Type
Type of
audience
Countries
addressed
Size of
audience
Partner
responsible
involved
2012/2013 Project web-site4 ESS ALL
2012/2013 Direct e-mailing ESS NO
2012 Mar GISCO Workshop ESS ALL
2012 Mar ESTP Course5 ESS NO,SE,LU,DK;
EE
2012 Oct EFGS Prague Conference6 ESS ESS ALL
2013 Mar GISCO Workshop ESS ALL
2013 Dec ESS Workshop – Rome, Italy ESS NO
2013 Mar ESTP Course7 ESS NO,EE,LU
2013 Sep NFGS Copenhagen Conference8 NO
2013 Oct EFGS Sofia Conference9 ESS ESS ALL
Guidelines, handbooks ESS ALL
Contributions to standards ALL
Posters ESS NO, LU
Flyers ESS NO
2014 Jan European Modernisation Workshop
- Valencia 2014
ESS ESS NO
Participants at ESTP 2013 Kongsvinger course
4 http://www.efgs.info/
5 http://www.efgs.info/GEOSTAT/estp-2012
6 http://www.efgs.info/workshops/efgs-2012-prague-czech-republic
7 http://www.efgs.info/GEOSTAT/estp-2013-gis-course
8 http://www.efgs.info/workshops/nfgs-2013-copenhagen-denmark
9 http://www.efgs.info/front-page/workshops/efgs-2013-sofia-bulgaria/efgs-2013-conference-1
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Participants at EFGS 2013 Sofia conference
Poster for the EFGS 2013 Sofia conference
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Number of visits by cities in Germany to EFGS website 2012-2013.
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6. Final use of resources
The final use of resources in man months is presented in the table below:
TABLE 4. RESOURCES
Work package Co-ordinator / Co-partner
WP0
WP1
WP2
WP3
WP4
TOTAL per Beneficiary
1. Statistics Norway 5 9,5 1,5 2,5 4 22,5
2. Statistics Bulgaria 7 3 10
3. Czech Statistical Office 2,5 3 5,5
4. Statistics Estonia 1 1 2
5. Statistics Finland 4,5 1 5,5
6. Statistics Portugal 1 1 2
TOTAL 5 25,5 1,5 2,5 13 47,5
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